Worcs fined for registration breach

29 May 2009

The ECB today announced that Worcestershire County Cricket Club has been fined £600 by the Cricket Discipline Commission in respect of an offence of playing an unregistered player in a Friends Provident Trophy match earlier this season.

After investigation, it is accepted by the commission that the failure to register was an administrative oversight on the part of the county and that the player - now registered for that county - was at all relevant times eligible to be registered and play for Worcestershire.

The player involved was Ian Fisher but the commission found that he was entirely blameless.

In these circumstances the matter has been dealt with by way of summary procedure.

However, the commission wishes to underline the need for counties to ensure that players are properly registered and in timely fashion.

Worcestershire County Cricket Club apologised for its error, accepted the financial penalty and undertook to review their systems to endeavour to ensure that such a failing was not repeated in the future.

The ECB will make no further comment on this matter.

Gerard Elias QC
Chairman CDC